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VMware had its earnings call yesterday afternoon and just like EMC, it has also reported remarkable growth. The company’s revenues in Q1, 2011 added up to an impressive $844 million, beating its own and analysts’ exceptions expectations with a 33% year-over-year increase. …
Intel Earnings Call Beats Estimates After Low Expectations
Intel’s earnings call was yesterday, and despite of some pessimistic expectations the chipmaker reported blockbuster first quarter profits. Intel reported $3.2 billion, up 29 percent over the same period last year, and revenues also up at $12.8 billion, or about 25 percent …
Data Retention: User Friendly Policies?
Data retention is a very important matter to a lot of online users– either because they’re looking for an ideal experience, or because it’s the very thing they’re looking to avoid as much as possible. Nevertheless, privacy concerns don’t seem to worry …
Mobile Video Gets Premium Update, HBO Goes Head-to-Head with Netflix
Video streaming is becoming more significant on the go, as devices are getting stronger and companies are coming up with better offerings. HBO is one of those companies, and we’ve learned that HBO Go, a service allowing users to stream some 1,400 …
EnterpriseDB Update: Saving With Open Source
Today we’ve learned of an update coming from EnterpriseDB, the largest independent PostgreSQL open source database technology provider. The company released a customer case study detailing how international marketing services company Aquent replaced its existing Sybase database with EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server. …
Sonos Expands the Personal (Music) Cloud
Streaming-music technology maker Sonos launched a free app for Android app, supporting most of the operating system’s phones and tablets. The app utilizes Android’s built-in voice recognition feature to offer voice search, and controls the volume of a Sonos device using the Android …
Zillow and Envivio Catch IPO Fever
Seattle-based real-estate information site Zillow has filed initial paperwork to kick off an initial public offering. The company hopes to raise $57 million, and will use the investment for general purposes, such as working capital, sales initiatives and so on. Zillow’s prospectus …
Groupon and Twitter Grow Big Data Analytics with Acquisitions
Groupon’s making the most out of its millions of users, and analyzes its big data to determine the effectiveness of its advertising expenditures, consumer behavior as well as purchaser demographics and location. This is done to maintain a leadership position in hyperlocal …
Data Scientists Get Props from EMC, Jitterbit
The big data revolution is doing more than just introducing new levels of effectiveness – it’s also spurring a new breed of workers. The data scientist is heavily relying on the cloud, accessing the information and the tools with the right processing …
Monday Morning Cloud Roundup: Cloudera, Cisco and Beyond
This past week in the cloud has been a particularly exciting one. This is notably because some of major, multibillion-dollar milestones some of the biggest players in tech has reached, as well as a number of highlighted product releases. For example, Cisco …